Reviews

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin, Mike Cohn, Brian Marick

skybalon's review against another edition

4.0

Great introduction to Agile methodology and testing's role. Sometimes it is too dogmatic and sometimes it is a little vague, but mostly it is a great resource.

philipdeherdt's review against another edition

2.0

The target audience for this book seems to be: software testers with a background that's not in an agile environment. Since I am working in an agile environment, but only partially as a tester, this book didn't fully resonate with me.

Also, I was kinda annoyed that the tester was portrayed as the center point in about everything that the team does. While I get that testing isn't just something that you do after development, I think this aspect was over-stressed and belittled the roles of other people on the team.

stevex's review against another edition

4.0

A very good book on blending testing activities and roles into an agile development team. The content is mostly excellent, but with perhaps a tad more generic descrriptions of agile methodology than really necessary. I did find a couple of aspects of the style a bit wearing: 1) the unending Lisa's story/Janet's story examples which I guess were named that way in conscious echo of agile terminology, but which I found really twee and largely unhelpful ("Lisa did x and then everything was perfect!"); 2) the total lack of linking between sentences which makes the whole book read like an unending series of bullet points. Not the end of the world but tiring to read. Also another book which would be better as a physical book than a kindle read

oleksandrrr's review

Book was written in ime when Agile was a buzz-words.
Good way to present ideas, unfortunately - no interesting ideas in this book.